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I don't know David Leffel personally, though I have seen a talk of his, last year at the ASOPA conference. I imagine he has bad days like everyone else. I would think that he makes some paintings that never see the light of day.
When I'm working on a commission, I pretty much know ahead of time what I'm going to do and I'm almost always satisifed with the results. (I say "almost" because the times I've accepted bad reference in the past didn't result in paintings that I was pleased with, though the clients liked them.)
Also, when I look back at work I've done a while ago, I see how much I've learned since then and I'm often no longer satisified with what I did previously.
When I'm doing paintings for myself, the ones that are not portrait commissions, I push the envelope of what I'm comfortable with and what I have done before. Many of those are ones I would consider outright failures and are now sitting in the garage. They will probably stay there!
Some day, like Virgil Elliot does, I may literally destroy those reject paintings of mine so that none of them get out there in the world with my name on them.
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